France & England (1347 & -1455)

1. France & England (1347 & -1455) An End of an Age

2. French Land Belonged to English Kings • A long standing issue was the status of lands within France that belonged to English kings. • The English king was actually a vassal of the French king, holding sizable French territories as fiefs from the king of France [this went back to the Norman conquest].

3. The Hundred Years' War (1337-1453) The Black Death

4. Caffa

6. Medieval Art & the Plague

7. The Culprits

8. The Symptoms Buboes (lumps) Septicemic Form:almost 100% mortality rate.

9. Medieval Art & the Plague Bring out your dead!

10. Attempts to Stop the Plague Leeching Nosegay:Fresh flowers to breathe through to block smells and bad air.

14. the 100 Years' War RESUMES

15. Controversy Over Succession • Henry V ruled England. • Charles VI ruled France.

16. Agincourt 1415

18. Henry V marries Katherine of France

19. Who should be king? • Henry VI • Charles VII VS French Civil War

20. Burgundian

21. Height of English Dominance

22. The French “Reconquest” • In 1429, the French king, Charles VII, was able to raise the English siege of Orleans with the aid of the mysterious Joan of Arc . • This began the reconquest of the north of France.

23. Joan of Arc (1412-1432) • The daughter of prosperous peasants from an area of Burgundy that had suffered under the English. • Joan of Arc claimed that God sent her a vision telling her to lead the French into battle. • She dressed like a man and was Charles’ most charismatic and feared military leader!

25. Joan of Arc (1412-1432) • She was captured during an attack on Paris and fell into English hands. • Because of her “unnatural dress and claim to divine guidance, she was condemned and burned as witch in 1432. • She instantly became a symbol of French resistance.

27. France Becomes Unified! France in 1453 France in 1337

28. The Hundred Years' War (1337-1453)

30. Lancaster York

31. War of the Roses or The Cousins’ War

32. Edward IV marries Elizabeth Woodville

33. Edward V

36. What happened to the princes?

38. Richard III • Edward IV’s brother • King from 1483-1485 • Last of the Plantaganet dynasty since his own son died in 1484. • Plantaganets were descendents of Henry II.

39. Edmund 1st Duke of York John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster Richard Duke of York Katherine of France Owen Tudor Henry IV Richard Conisburgh Edward IV Richard III Edmund Tudor ½ brother Henry V Henry Tudor VII Edward V & Richard Henry VI Elizabeth Of York Princes in the tower

40. Battle of Bosworth Field 1485

41. An End of an Age • In 1347, Black Death began spreading, • Population shrank marking Feudalism’s ending . • Fighting the English, Joan of Arc would implore, • To let her lead France in the Hundred Year’s War. • The War of the Roses, 1455 A.D. , • Was years of battle within a fam-il-y. • Richard the third claimed the prize, the English throne. • Missing princes in a Tower; their fate unknown.

42. Made by Peggy Richter MCA Grammar School Midland ,TX Some slides and format borrowed from Ms. Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

43. France & England (1347 & -1455) An End of an Age